Michael Macor/The ChronicleIBM’s Mark Dean Mark Dean, head of IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose and one of the Silicon Valley’s most respected technologists, talks with tech reporter Benjamin …

Leave it to wine reporter W. Blake Gray to sneak a $48 bottle of Chardonnay into a movie theater and drink it with a bucket of hot buttered popcorn. That’s exactly what Mr. Gray did with what was left …

Here’s the debut of “Tim Goodman’s TV Talk Machine,” the podcast where you can hear the San Francisco Chronicle’s Television Critic answering your questions about all things TV with a batting average …